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Welcome to Orcmid's Lair, the playground for family connections, pastimes, and scholarly vocation -- the collected professional and recreational work of Dennis E. Hamilton Archives Atom Feed Associated Blogs Edge City Numbering Peano Praxis101 Prof. von Clueless in the Blunder Dome Recent Items Justifying Pre-Emptive War The IT Chaos Tipping Point? Security-Challenged Arphids at a Survey Near You TEST Swept Along: Israel Outed by Scoble Scoble's Red Couch Opens When Possibilities Inspire Their Sources Bloggers as Gatekeepers and Citizens Being Thankful ACM News Service: Fresh Mesh - A New Route to Smaller 3D Files	2004-12-10 Sandy's CyberHome Travels Sandy's CyberHome. A page on this site was referenced as an example of (bad?) architecture by reputedly great architects (Frank Lloyd Wright in this instance). I'm grateful for the link, all of the sights, and the reminder that I have many photographs that it would be grand to organize and present on my own site. Maybe, when I take a breather from time to time on my M.Sc project dissertation? *Reading:* Andrew W. Greeley, Star Bright! A Christmas Story, Tom Doherty Associates Forge Books (New York: 1997). Well, we were in the supermarket last night and I was missing some bed-time reading, having devoured all of the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan novels and caught up on Ed McBain, Sue Grafton, and Patricia Cornwall. Here's a perfect respite between my final class for my M.Sc in IT and the commencement of my dissertation project. I read Greeley years ago and I loved every one. His Lord of the Dance taught me that I have no conception of the deeper aspects of Christianity and I still ponder that even though I don't remember much of the book (other than I know I liked it). Thinking back, there are others where the spiritual and mystical aspects were wonderful, though I don't recall titles. Today's find is a re-acquaintance via a short novel that is a simple and wonderful love story. It might also be testament to the vitality and life that a marriage of the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches might bring to American Catholic life. Either way, it is a touching love story. As are they all, every one. *Listening to:* Gustav Holst, Jupiter, from The Planets. From 101 Great Orchestral Classics, downloaded from MSN Music and playing in Microsoft Media Player 9 (on my Windows 98 [still] desktop system). In the course of several moves and technology changes, I have sold off more LPs and CDs than I care to admit, and now my collection is pretty bare. MSN Radio Plus makes it too easy to say "buy that" and I have been going for background music and the sound track of my office life. And some good exercise (rowing machine Funk) as well as cool-down (New Age) music. I'm annoyed that the MSN Radio themes no longer include activity-related play lists and are into sounds-like what I can get on my radio and don't listen to already. But I can be my own DJ for a modest investment, apart from needing to install the larger hard drive that I have on the shelf waiting for the upgrade to Windows XP SP2 on that system. I think 120GB is starting to look too small. posted by orcmid at 12/10/2004 03:45:20 PM *Comments:* Paradise Towers Apartments are located at right in the heart of Central Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast offers three star holiday accommodation. Apartments including luxurious facilities at affordable rates. All apartments are self contained, laundry facilities are available throughout complex and outdoor swimming pool. # posted by paradise_tower: 4:19 AM Although the preceding note qualifies as comment-SPAM, I am going to leave it for the simple reason that it is benign. There is no link, no link juice, and comments do not go into my Atom feed. The posted-by link is to a currently-empty Blogger account page. This has me wonder if we're running into an amateur level of spamming which is mostly unaware of the disdain with which this sort of thing is regarded and the means by which it is combatted and rendered ineffective. This could just be an initial-trial toe in the water, too. I guess we'll know soon enough. # posted by orcmid: 9:25 AM Hotel Sunstar Residency in Delhi offers luxury and comfortable stay within your budget in all respects, satisfying travelers. The distinctive feature of our deluxe hotel in Delhi is high standard and quality accommodation catering to the needs of clients at reasonable rates. The availability within the ranges from luxury hotels, standard hotels, budget hotels to the Heritage Hotels in Delhi. # posted by sunstar: 3:05 AM Isn't this great! Travel spamming. It seems pretty clear - that this post is receiving these comments strictly by virtue of the title and not the content - that a search engine is being used to find this blog entry - that setting up a Blogger account and a single entry is being used to provide a target for link juice and whatever is being promoted, and - we can expect more of this, although it seems to be a low-tech solution so far Meanwhile, I will be watching and, when the deluge increases, start complaining to Blogger (about violations of the terms of service) and looking to just delete the stuff (which is pretty easy at this level of volume). # posted by orcmid: 8:49 AM Post a Comment

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